The Best Episodes Written By Charles Beaumont

Every TV Episode Written by Charles Beaumont Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 5 Episode 17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #1 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You

    S5:E17

    In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

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  2. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - Valley of the Shadow
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #2 - Valley of the Shadow

    S4:E3

    A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.

    Director:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 5 Episode 6 - Living Doll
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #3 - Living Doll

    S5:E6

    Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 26 - Shadow Play
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    #4 - Shadow Play

    S2:E26

    Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.

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  5. undefined Season 3 Episode 27 - Person or Persons Unknown
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #5 - Person or Persons Unknown

    S3:E27

    David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 20 - Elegy
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #6 - Elegy

    S1:E20

    Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 24 - Long Live Walter Jameson
    7.4/10(29 votes)

    #7 - Long Live Walter Jameson

    S1:E24

    Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

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  8. undefined Season 4 Episode 1 - In His Image
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #8 - In His Image

    S4:E1

    A scientist tries to correct his imperfections by building a mechanical likeness of himself, which includes of all the finer qualities he is lacking.

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Howling Man
    7.4/10(27 votes)

    #9 - The Howling Man

    S2:E5

    A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 28 - A Nice Place to Visit
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #10 - A Nice Place to Visit

    S1:E28

    After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.

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  11. undefined Season 4 Episode 9 - Printer's Devil
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #11 - Printer's Devil

    S4:E9

    A wily old man, hired by a bankrupt newspaper editor, has the knack of predicting headline stories and claims to be the Devil.

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Perchance to Dream
    7.0/10(46 votes)

    #12 - Perchance to Dream

    S1:E9

    A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 23 - Shadow Play / Grace Note
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Shadow Play / Grace Note

    S1:E23

    A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him is a dream: one that he can't wake up from. He claims that every time he is executed, he fails to wake up and must relive the whole thing again. His attorney is originally skeptical, but Grant knows all of the "lines" and can predict things that will happen miles away. His attorney tries to get a stay of execution, but is just too late: Grant is "executed" and wakes up at his trial once more. The players have changed roles, but otherwise everything is the same as he must relive the same events over...and over...and over. An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. Her sick sister leaves a gift: a glimpse into the future when the singer is a world-famous star.

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  14. undefined Season 5 Episode 18 - Backward, Turn Backward
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Backward, Turn Backward

    S5:E18

    A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 25 - The Long Silence
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Long Silence

    S1:E25

    In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora collapses and falls into a paralyzed, yet conscious, state. She is bedridden and worried that her husband will try to kill her. She is also unable to speak and cannot tell anyone about her dangerous husband. When her nurse Jean Dekker allows her husband to adminster her medicine, she grows fearful that he will try to poison her. Fortunately, the nurse figures out a way to communicate with Nora. Nora squeezes her hand in response to yes or no questions. Jean discovers the truth about Ralph, but when Ralph finds out he tries to kill both Nora and Jean . Fortunately, Nora comes out of her paralysis in time to scream. She alerts her second son who manages to subdue Ralph before he can kill again.

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  16. undefined Season 4 Episode 17 - Passage on the Lady Anne
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Passage on the Lady Anne

    S4:E17

    A quarrelsome young couple find themselves taking a trip on the Lady Anne, an old passenger liner that is transporting a group of equally old passengers.

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  17. undefined Season 4 Episode 13 - The New Exhibit
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #17 - The New Exhibit

    S4:E13

    The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 22 - Long Distance Call
    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #18 - Long Distance Call

    S2:E22

    A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

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  19. undefined Season 3 Episode 18 - Dead Man's Shoes
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Dead Man's Shoes

    S3:E18

    A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - Static
    6.7/10(15 votes)

    #20 - Static

    S2:E20

    Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 21 - The Prime Mover
    6.6/10(18 votes)

    #21 - The Prime Mover

    S2:E21

    Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 12 - The Jungle
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    #22 - The Jungle

    S3:E12

    Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

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  23. undefined Season 4 Episode 8 - Miniature
    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #23 - Miniature

    S4:E8

    A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.

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  24. undefined Season 3 Episode 25 - The Fugitive
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    #24 - The Fugitive

    S3:E25

    Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

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  25. undefined Season 5 Episode 23 - Queen of the Nile
    6.3/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Queen of the Nile

    S5:E23

    A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.

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Charles Beaumont Ratings Summary

"Number 12 Looks Just Like You" is the best rated episode written by Charles Beaumont. It scored 8/10 based on 13 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 1/24/1964 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Valley of the Shadow".